Author: Bernard Picart (1673-1733)
Title: Antique title page | Le Temple des Muses, published 1732-1733, 1 p.
Description: Architectural frame with the title in French, flanked by the personifications of Poetry and Painting. The second personification wears a cloth on her mouth. This refers to Horace's Ut pictura poesis (Poetry is like painting). The frame is crowned with a cartouche with Cupid. Under the frame, a cartouche with another personification with a tower-shaped crown, possibly Cybele. This cartouche is flanked by Death as a skeleton and an old man who has just awakened.Signed ad dated at bottom left: B. Picart invenit 1732.Frontispiece - bookillustration - frontispice - boekillustratie Etching and engraving on paper; total: 476 x 338 mm; mounted on cardboard passepartout. Some rubbing and small damages on the outer margins, otherwise in very good condition.

Keywords: Allegories|Art history|Baby|Book illustrations|Children|Death|Emblems|French|Frontispiece|Iconography|Literature|Literature & Philosophy|Music|Mythology|Poetry|Skull|Theater|Women